ST RUMON, BISHOP - 30 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 30th of August

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

SAINT RUMON, BISHOP 

Saint Rumon (Ruan) lived during the 6th century. He is the patron of the abbey of Tavistock and Romansleigh in Devonshire, and of Ruan Lanihorne, Ruan Major and Minor in Cornwall. 

A BROTHER OF ST TUDWAL

St Rumon is believed to have been a brother of St Tudwal. William of Malmesbury tells us that the vita [Life] of St Rumon was destroyed during the wars, but that our Saint was a bishop of an unidentified see. 

A MIX-UP

About this time a well-meaning canon provided a "vita" from Rumon by taking an abbreviated life of the Breton St Ronan and changing the name to Rumon throughout. 

It does, however, describe the translation of Rumon's relics on January 5, 981, from Ruan Lanihorne, a Celtic monastery and the most ancient centre of his cultus, to Tavistock. 

HE WAS HIGHLY VENERATED AT TAVISTOCK

St Rumon was highly venerated at Tavistock. The earl Ordulf built a church dedicated to him in the 10th century and requested his relics, which remained there throughout the Middle Ages.

GLASTONBURY ALSO CLAIMED RUMON'S RELICS

Glastonbury also claimed Rumon's relics. He may have been a monk at Glastonbury, who founded a monastery on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. He is also venerated in Norwich and Ramsey. 

(From the Encyclopaedia of Saints - 📷 St Rumon's Cross on the site of the former St Rumon's Chapel, Redruth, Cornwall)